Benign metastasizing leiomyoma: Clonality, telomere length and clinicopathologic analysis

Modern Pathology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 130-140

  Patton, Kurt T ^a   Cheng, Liang ^b   Papavero, Veronica ^a   Blum, Matthew G ^a   Yeldandi, Anjana V ^a   Adley, Brian P ^a   Luan, Chunyan ^a   Diaz, Leslie K ^a   Hui, Pei ^c   Yang, Ximing J ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Clonality; Leiomyoma; Metastasis; Pulmonary; Telomere

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLONAL VARIATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG TUMOR; MEASUREMENT; METASTASIS; PATHOGENESIS; PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE; UTERUS MYOMA; UTERUS TUMOR;

EID: 32844475209     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: 15300285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/modpathol.3800504     Document Type: Article

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